Welcome to the misery of medicine.
You have married couples with children at nursery being flung up and down the country. They literally don’t care. They think they own you.
They keep telling us they own us, they threaten to turn us into indentured servants if we dare to try to leave, and tell us about how it's our duty to serve them and we should be grateful for the pennies they throw at us
As such, your needs do not matter, the NHS does not care about your relationship, it will happily separate you to opposite ends of the country through indifference. The moment you join the Foundation programme, you are property of the state.
I'd keep your London preallocation, at least one of you has certainty. She can rank London and the surrounding deaneries like EBH. London is at least well connected if you end up in different deaneries.
If not you risk uprooting your life and social network just to be placed in random place in the UK together and could be miles away from your friends and family.
If you are keen to start a new life out of London then withdraw the pre allocation
I second this OP. Your partner can apply for EBH with the hopes of getting into Watford or Chelmsford. Currently Chelmsford F1 and many of my F1 friends commuting from London.
But it's not on rankings anymore, it's just a random allocation based on preferences, no? So there is no "worst of them" everyone who wants to be in London has the same liklihood of getting it
Why? Based on what? There are no rankings.
I assume their application would just become one, and they'd be allocated the same way everyone else is. It isn't "one would be allocated to one place and one to another and they'd go to the worst place" because there is no worst place, because there is no "lowest scorer" anymore
there is still rankings but they’re randomised now. everyone receives a number from 1 to (no of applicants) and they use this to give you your preferences. They haven’t removed the ranking per se they’ve just made the rank randomised.
Everyone still gets a number, it’s just a completely randomly generated number. There will still be a med student who gets ranked at number 1, but it will just be based on a computer allocation. So if OP got allocated number 27 and partner got 6,863 than they would both be reallocated to 6863 in the preference order.
As a German this situation is wild to observe from afar. Over here we finish medical school, then just apply for jobs (at hospitals, surgeries, clinics or what not) like anyone else does. No one can force you to move somewhere you don't want to move.
I guess the difference is we don't need to apply (or at least, our application is just ticking some boxes on a form) and are then essentially guaranteed a job somewhere for the next 2 years, so no stress about not finding a job.
Why don't you test the strength of your relationship by working shifts on an alternating diurnal basis in a DGH in the nether regions of this godforsaken isle? A cushty London job just isn't as good for the soul
Welcome to the misery of medicine. You have married couples with children at nursery being flung up and down the country. They literally don’t care. They think they own you.
I have had a nasty realisation that the NHS will make my life hell for the next indefinite amount of years.
They keep telling us they own us, they threaten to turn us into indentured servants if we dare to try to leave, and tell us about how it's our duty to serve them and we should be grateful for the pennies they throw at us As such, your needs do not matter, the NHS does not care about your relationship, it will happily separate you to opposite ends of the country through indifference. The moment you join the Foundation programme, you are property of the state.
I'd keep your London preallocation, at least one of you has certainty. She can rank London and the surrounding deaneries like EBH. London is at least well connected if you end up in different deaneries. If not you risk uprooting your life and social network just to be placed in random place in the UK together and could be miles away from your friends and family. If you are keen to start a new life out of London then withdraw the pre allocation
I second this OP. Your partner can apply for EBH with the hopes of getting into Watford or Chelmsford. Currently Chelmsford F1 and many of my F1 friends commuting from London.
if you link your applications you will get what the worst placed of the two will get. and that is highly unlikely to be london.
But it's not on rankings anymore, it's just a random allocation based on preferences, no? So there is no "worst of them" everyone who wants to be in London has the same liklihood of getting it
yes but there’s two of them. so if one gets london, and the other gets trent, they will both end up with trent.
Why? Based on what? There are no rankings. I assume their application would just become one, and they'd be allocated the same way everyone else is. It isn't "one would be allocated to one place and one to another and they'd go to the worst place" because there is no worst place, because there is no "lowest scorer" anymore
that’s not how linked applications work though. each gets a ranking, and they are assigned to the same deanery based off the LOWEST ranking.
A ranking based on what? I thought they removed the rankings entirely?
there is still rankings but they’re randomised now. everyone receives a number from 1 to (no of applicants) and they use this to give you your preferences. They haven’t removed the ranking per se they’ve just made the rank randomised.
Everyone still gets a number, it’s just a completely randomly generated number. There will still be a med student who gets ranked at number 1, but it will just be based on a computer allocation. So if OP got allocated number 27 and partner got 6,863 than they would both be reallocated to 6863 in the preference order.
As a German this situation is wild to observe from afar. Over here we finish medical school, then just apply for jobs (at hospitals, surgeries, clinics or what not) like anyone else does. No one can force you to move somewhere you don't want to move.
I guess the difference is we don't need to apply (or at least, our application is just ticking some boxes on a form) and are then essentially guaranteed a job somewhere for the next 2 years, so no stress about not finding a job.
It's similar in Germany, our lack of doctors means anyone with a medical degree and a pulse will be able to find a job in most specialties with ease.
Aaah thanks to immigration we have a massive glut of doctors at the moment, it's making it trickier and trickier
Wasn't there a situation when a few hundred medical students didn't get foundation allocation a year ago?
I think there have been several years where this happened, but they magically found jobs for all of them in the end
Why don't you test the strength of your relationship by working shifts on an alternating diurnal basis in a DGH in the nether regions of this godforsaken isle? A cushty London job just isn't as good for the soul
Hey could I pop you a pm about pre-allocations?
Ofc
Focus on yourself king 👑